Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-04-15
and Blakemore are counsel for the plaintiff

eurSlon OF tne pup1ls OF Gne Augusta foA"Ao
Seminary of Staunton, visited the Luray Cav
erns. The editor of the Luray 'tNews" says
their bright faces made him feel ten years
younger.
The Local Option election in Lee magiste
rial district in Shenandoah, took place March
81 The district includes the towns of New
Market, Quicksburg, and Forestville. The
vote stood Vets BAL, Drys 190-Wet majority
Isl.
The First Brigade of Virginia State troops
which will attend the great national cncamp-
ment and drill at Washington city In May,
will carry twenty eight companies of infantry,
two companies of cavalry and five batteries of
artillery. Gen. Chas. J. Anderson will COM
mand it. Two of the infantry companies are
colored and will have camp and drill COM
petition of their own 1t is these companies
that brought out some protests from some OF
the Southern States, but the commander says
the Virginia colored troops shall go; they did
good service at the Newport News riots and
shall not be left behind when there is pleas
ant duty to be done.
LII bu0 bIIctt dG L CtCI6OoiS looo WO0ht AAO~-
erick M. Langston, colored, keeper of q cigar
! store, and son of Hon. John M. Langston,
(forner q. S. Minister to Hayti and now
President of the State Colored Normal and
Collegiate Institute at Petersburg,) shot and
killed John Fl. Ruffln colored whom he sus-
pected of having taken his meerschaum pipe.
The murder was unprovoked and the colored
people of Petersburg are much excited over
it.
]. J. Cornelson. a lawyer, was last week
committed to the Mt. Sterling, KY, Jail to
serve sentence of three years for having
horsewhipped Judge Reid, who afterwards
committed suicide through modification at
being thus degraded
John U. Sumpter, for twenty years a pass
enger conductor on the Norfolk d Western
R'y., has been appointed by Railroad Com
missioner Hill Of Virginia to be his clerk.
In St. Paurs Catholic church at Jersey City
N. j., Sunday, letter was read, from Mrs.
Agnes Pritchard, begging forgiveness for
marrying a Protestant. Father Smyth ex-
planned to the congregation that as it was the
first time such an offence had been commit
ted in his parish he had permitted the apollo
gy to be made in writing; but in any future
case of the kind the rule laid down by the
Baltimore Council requiring an oral confess
sion in person before the people would be en-
forced.
The colored Odd Fellows of Norfolk, Va,
have been much shaken up by the disappear
ance Of Andrew Mason, the colored treasurer
of the lodge, leaving his account short $500.
He was man of great influence among his
race in that city.
The Warrenton 'Virginian" says that on
the farm of J. W. Mathews near The Plains,
in Fauquier, the orchard is filed with grass
hoppers as thick as they have ever been seen
in July. They have besn there through all
the cold winter weather of February and
March
Judge MCMILLAN of Madison county, Va,
clerks Office last week making some court Or
ders, Piner Yowell, fired up with liquor made
disturbance and answered the Judges re-
quest for silence by hitting him over the head.
The Judge knocked him down and sat on him
until bystander could go out and get the
Sheriff to take him to Jail.
Hiram Bowman of Winchester, Ohio, load
ed five sticks of his woodpile with powder
The next morning while the family of Cary
Peters, the next door colored neighbor of
Bowman, was eating breakfast, the stove was
blown up severely injuring a daughter of
Peters. Bowman has been notified that suit
will be brought against him J.!
The Alexandria "Gazette'' publishes on the
authority of a Richmond gentleman, the state
ment that by the failure of the late II. H.
Maury, banker of Richmond, Gen. Gusts
Lee lost $4,000, Miss Mary Lee, his Sis
ter, lost $l8, 900 by the same failure, and Miss
Mildred Lee would have also been a heavy
loser had not her brother, Gen. Rooney Lee,
withdrawn her deposits in time to save her.
The private residence that pays the largest
gas bill in the United States is that of Pierre
Lorillard, who pays from $500 to $500 a
month. A. 7. Stewards big marble pa
lace never paid over 1875 per month. The
Vanderbilt residences on Fifth Avenue, pay
each from 5000 to $3.50 per month. Of course
all these figures are for the winter months.
The new liquor law in Maine makes the
payment of United States tax by liquor
seller, prima facie evidence against one charg-
ed with that offence. For selling liquor the
first offence gets $50 fine and 80 days in jail,
and the second gets 5000 fine and six months
in Jail. For being drunk first time, man is
fined $40 or goes to jail 80 days; for the Sec
ond drunk there is no fine collected but thirty
days in Jail must be served.
Mrs: Mary Clayton Steptoe, widow of the
late COL Ed. Steptoe, U. S. A., died in Lynch
burg last week, leaving property valued at
$150,O00. During her life she had given
large sums to charity.
A Vermont druggist has attached electric
apparatus to all the bottles containing poison
in his establishment Whenever one of them
is touched ringing is commenced which no.
titles the compounder of the sort of material
he is handling.
Rev. William G. White of Hampden Sidney
has, at his own request, been dismissed by
certificate from West Hanover Presbytery to
Lexington Presbytery, that he may accept
call rendered him by the Warm Springs
church, Bath county.
The State Medical Board in session at Rich
mond last week, examined nineteen applicants
for certificates to practice medicine in Vir-
ginia. Of these all but seven were rejected.
OF the successful applicants, four were grad
yates of the Richmond Medical College and
three of the University of Maryland.
The nerviest exhibition in this State on
Local Option, was made last week in Dry
liberty, where some persons against whom
seventy indictments are pending for selling